Thursday, June 11, 2015

Seagram Building

By:Candela Suárez and Unai Loidi

SEAGRAM
BUILDING:

It
was made in 1954-1958, it is found in New York, Park Avenue and it
has a modern style.

AUTHOR
BIOGRAPHY:

It
was made by the german architect Miles van der Rohe, with the help of
Philip Jhonson. Ludwis was born in Aquisgrán, Germany, 27-3-1886 and
he died in Chicago, Illinois, 17-8-1969. Among his most famous works
of this period highlights the Seagram Building (1958), a skyscraper
of 39 floors of glass and bronze built in New York along with his
disciple Philip Johnson.

In
1959 he retired from the Illinois Institute of Technology.From
1962-1968 built the National Gallery in Berlin. It is a building
dedicated to exhibitions of works of art, consisting of a large
square room built entirely of glass and steel and set on a large
terrace of granite slabs.

The
August 17, 1969 died in Chicago, leaving as a legacy a new standards
for architecture that under his as disclosed slogans "Less is
more" and "God is in the details", which considers it
as one of the most important masters of modern architecture.

STRUCTURE
AND MATERIALS:

The
structure, 39 floors, combines a steel frame and reinforced concrete
core to resist the lateral thrust of the wind. Said core rises to the
17th floor, and diagonal braces to the floor 29.2.

It
is based on the precepts of the International Style, it was
influential in American architecture. One such principle is to make a
real architecture, in which the inner structure articulates the
external aesthetics of the building. The architect's original idea
was that the plot of structural steel hanging glass curtain walls
saw, but the American building regulations required to cover all
structural steel elements with some fireproof material, such as
concrete, to prevent in case of fire to melt and hide gave in. Miles
wanted to avoid the concrecte structure of the building at all costs,
so he used bronze double profiles as a non-structural columns to
remember the internal structure. These are visible from outside the
building, and as a vertically running mullions. It is a method
similar to that already used in apartment towers on Lake Shore Drive
in Chicago.

GENERAL
IMPRESSIONS:

We
found the building amazing, because of the incredible height of 157
meters it has, with 39 floors. And if we add the dark colors in the
windows, they make a strong and smart appearance to the construction.
It looks straight and well-balanced from our point of view. We think
it has been interesting working about this large building from Miles.